Hi Jimin,
Welcome to your personalized Grit Lab Report!
We will go week by week, reviewing everything you have told us through Poll Everywhere.
We hope this will help you reflect on what you have learned and experienced during Grit Lab.
Important note!
Sometimes, you may not have been able to respond to all polls.
If the data for one of the polls is missing, the automatic report will display NA, or ““.
Okay, let’s get started!
The first half of Grit Lab delves deep intp the passion facet of Grit.
We like to call it Choose Easy, because we think gritty people pursue what they enjoy.
Putting it graphically, gritty people tend to pursue the intersection of these four circles.
The first time we met, you told us where you were on the grit rubric.
Regarding passion you picked Stage 1: I’m equally interested in pretty much everything but not especially committed to any one interest .
Regarding perseverance you picked .
As you know, grit grows, so don’t worry if you are not yet where you’d like to be in your grit journey.
Hopefully, this class will help you become grittier each day.
In week 2, we looked at your interests.
Interest is an emotion, and it is the opposite of boredom.
Your interests are the activities or subjects that spontaneously grab your attention.
Trying things out and seeing how you feel is the best way to refine your interests.
In week 3, we studied values, your beliefs about what is important.
You said your top three values were achievement, self-direction, and benevolence.
You wrote a “This I Believe” essay, and here’s where you located it on Schwartz’s value taxonomy.
When we talked about strengths in week 4, you said your personality strength was extraversion.
You said your top three talents were verbal, analytic, and social.
We then talked about goal hierarchies.
You said you had a general intuition (but nothing specific yet) about your top-level goal.
We discussed self-concordance, or how much a goal aligns to your deeply held values and beliefs.
A goal you said you will be pursuing for the next six months is to be healthy .
Here is how self-concordant that goal was:
Don’t worry if your self-concordance for that particular goal is low.
It might mean that you need to reframe that goal in a way that makes it more relevant to your deep self, or change it!
Remember that self-concordance is goal specific, so other goals might be more self-concordant.
We then transitioned to the second part of Grit Lab:
Work Smart
In week 6, we looked at goal setting and planning.
You WOOPed!
For your Wish, what you wanted to accomplish, you said get an a on my midterm .
For your Outcome, what would happen if your wish came true, you said successful .
For you Obstacle, what it is within you that stands in your way, you said procrastinating .
For your Plan, you created this when-then plan to achieve your goal: when i finish dinner i will watch two lecture videos .
Whether you changed your WOOP or stuck to that one, here’s where it landed between being a total fail, and going exactly according to plan.
And here’s how much you learned
These goals are hard, and despite our best efforts, our plans can fail.
The important thing is that you learn something along the way!
In week 7, we talked about deliberate practice.
You shared you’ve done daily practice in sports .
We learned that deliberate practice requires a challenging, hyperspecific goal, maximum concentration, instant feedback, and is often done alone.
In week 8, we discussed feedback.
Even though feedback can be hard to take, it is often the key to improve. So if you want to improve, seek it actively!
You said you felt attacked when receiving critical feedback, and attacked when receiving positive feedback.
We then turned to learning about stress.
In week 9, you reported feeling a moderate amount of stress in your life right now, the primary source of it being work .
We also talked about adversity and failure.
Although related, adversity and failure are different:
Adversity happens to us, whereas failure is something for which we are generally more responsible.
However, how we interpret stress and failure matters…
Interestingly, research has found that people who believe that stress can facilitate learning and growth experience enhanced performance, well-being, and health.
And failure—not achieving a particular goal—can be interpreted as “I’m learning!” and lead you to look for the lesson in that experience.
We closed the Work Smart section of the class by talking about habits.
Throughout the semester, you practice habit building using your Build-A-Habit Guide book.
You describe the habit you chose as Health .
Whether you were successful in habit building or not, this is how much you learned.
Finally, what good is grit if we do not dream for others?
So, we transitioned to Paying it Forward.
In week 10, we looked at mentors: role models that take an active role in your growth.
Hopefully, your mentor was authoritative, being both supportive and demanding.
Here’s how you described them:
You also wrote a gratitude letter to Teacher or professor .
In one word, you said it made you feel glad .
One way of paying it forward is having a prosocial, beyond-the-self purpose. Here’s how you responded to items assessing that.
… and so quickly we arrived at the end of the semester.
Here’s how your mood varied over these weeks.
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Do you notice any patterns? Is there anything that correlates with your mood?
Here you can scroll through all the quotes you wrote to summarize each class.
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| success is a journey not a destination |
| interest is an emotion |
| exposure can foster talent |
| goal fusion is an effective motivator for tedious tasks |
| WOOP provides more automation in reaching goals |
| deliberate practice is the best practice |
| positive advices grows you the most |
| by managing allostatis, we can utilize stress for greatness |
| habit forming creates success, and can be done strategically |
| i should lean on authoritative mentors |
| you need to find your personal balance of giving taking and matching |
In the final class, we looked back to everything we’ve learned together and to how our passion and perseverance evolved during this class.
Here are the comments from your Grit Lab Teammates:
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| Brandon Wang |
| I'm really glad I met you this semester through Grit Lab! You're super funny and very chill to talk to. I admire how engaged you were in class and in our discussions, and I appreciated your thoughtful perspectives on the different things we discussed in class. You also have a lot of artistic talent, so I liked seeing everything you came up with (like your Discovery Project). Hope you have a fun rest of the semester!
I also learned a lot from your nail art discovery project. I didn't know you could do the super fancy designs by yourself, but the pictures you showed turned out really well. I enjoyed learning about Unistella and other places you find inspiration. I hope your youtube tutorial videos go viral some day! |
| Collin Lovelace |
| Jimin made a good impression as a funny and fun-loving person with a nice sense of fashion. I enjoyed our group conversations with her as she always made interesting and real contributions whether we were talking about the grit lab questions or getting off topic. As I got to know Jimin more throughout the semester her artistic side became more apparent, especially with her presentation on nail art. I remember having complimented Jimin's nails multiple times in the semester and it was awesome to see the culmination of all her work in her presentation. She did a great job connecting her choices in the project to the content in the course. I have really enjoyed getting to know Jimin and I'm glad she was on my team! |
| Keara Mcgowan |
| Dear Jimin,
First, I want to express how much of a joy it has been to get to know you this semester. You are so kind and easy to talk to, and it was always exciting to hear about your weekend recap. I am still so jealous of your cabin trip with friends- I will have to keep that in mind for next year. It was also always a relief ranting about our current exams coming up too haha. We should definitely grab coffee sometime next semester to catch up and see how life is post-Grit Lab :).
I really appreciated your Discovery Project, as nail art has always been one of my interests too! I usually lean towards dip powder, so I certainly have not made as creative of designs as you. I love that you found such a therapeutic activity to do for not only yourself but your friends as well, since let’s be real… this school can be stressful and nail art is something you can always lean back on to take your mind off of things! I also appreciated how ~real~ you were during your presentation when you described your failures throughout the project. Yet you stuck with it, which is admirable!
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We hope you have emerged from Grit Lab a little grittier than you started.
Do you want to see how your grit rubric changed?
Drumroll please…
Don’t worry if the rubric doesn’t yet reflect growth. It is only a coarse measure that cannot replace your own self-reflection.
In any case, grit is not built in a day…
…remember that progress is never smooth…
…so stay passionate and persevering in the lifelong quest of choosing easy, working smart, and paying it forward.
With grit and gratitude,
Angela and the Grit Lab team.